#ghostbusters reboot

[darkphoenix180]

Posting this poll because I just saw the new one last night, lol.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

They were making a sequel for the 2016 reboot of Ghostbusters and they needed the garage of my childhood house to film a car wreck scene. I got a picture with Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, and Leslie Jones.

[ruagod]

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Ghostbusters (2016, Paul Feig)

20/12/2023

[hjellacott]

The problem with diversity, Woke and Cancel Culture in TV & film (written by an actual filmmaker)

These days you surely have noticed plenty of attempts to "mend history". People destroy Christopher Columbus memorials, pretend like their ancestors didn't violently conquer territory that was already occupied (by either native tribes or other established civilizations), and try to rewrite history in a way that is less offensive, as if that undoes the "wrongs" that were done. And I say "wrongs" because of course the past is always going to look wrong if you look at it with the lenses of the present. For example, think of the most embarrassing thing you ever did in childhood; the reason why you think it was embarrassing is only that you're looking at it now as a grown-up, and grown-up you wouldn't do that thing - doesn't mean it was wrong for a child to do it, nor even really embarrassing.

The same goes to history. Imagine if Germany had spent its post WW2 years destroying every evidence of the holocaust, Nazism and WW2 and pretending it didn't happen. Not only would it have been incredibly offensive and hurtful to the victims and their descendants, but also, erasing history means forgetting history, and when you forget history, you're doomed to repeat it. Yet somehow, it's been OK to do this with literally anything else, leading to the phenomenom of "Cancel Culture".

Now everyone's getting hurt, offended and ashamed by things that are well in the past, and instead of looking at them like a repressentative of the past, people seek to erase them, pretend they never happened, cancel them, try to vanish them from the Earth. For example when they throw Columbus' monuments into the ocean, or rewrite school books and neglect to inform children of how truly sad our past as human race is (and all these things have actually happened, I'm not exaggerating).

But when it comes to TV and film, you can't make them disappear, specially not in the era of Netflix, so what do they do? Try to redo them but "better". And then, legendary products of TV and film, such as Charmed, Friends, and so on, get either rebooted or attempted to be repeated in some similar fashion, and the "copy" sinks abysmally, while the popularity of the original rises.

There's a reason why the Charmed reboot hasn't been even a third of well-known as the original, why HIMYF sank after only two seasons, why there has never been anything quite like Friends, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, why the new Star Wars movies don't get as popular as the original six, why Modern Family couldn't be done today, why TV and film are running out of original ideas and getting stupider and stupider, why Woke and Cancel Culture are setting fire to the world of good film and TV, or why the only good reboot I can think of was The Ghostbusters (women's version). Spending life trying to do the past again but "better" (or what you think is better according to your present lenses), instead of accepting the past as it is and coming up with new, original things that revolutionise film and TV, doesn't lead to anything but boredom and failure.

I've been working in film for years, it's what I studied, what I devoted my life to, and over and over, we all in the industry keep discussing the same thing: there are no new ideas, and this "diversity" thing is a farce. Diversity cannot come from non-diversity. Until you have diversity in production companies, script writers, show creators, directors... there won't be diversity. Not for real. Taking a show as great as Charmed for example and do it again "but with POC actors" is NOT diversity, is a joke. Same can be said about HIMYF.

And thing is, there is nothing wrong with having shows without diversity, or with barely any. There is nothing wrong with having shows or movies where everyone is white or male, I mean, look at the Marvel Universe, it's mostly built around grown-up white men with good looks playing superheroes. Men like it because it's got superheroes and action, women like it because the men look great, and children like it for the great special effects. Thing is, the writer's mantra is "write about what you know". So if you're white, went to Harvard in the 1980s, and grew up in say, Ohio, you should totally be writing about white people, because anything else is dishonest, with yourself and everyone else. How are you going to write about the lived experiences of people who you aren't even friends with? who you don't know anything about but stereotypes? No. If what you know about is a bunch of white men in NYC, then that's what you fucking write about. Yes, you do your research, but you, white boy from Arizona, don't start to do research about a lesbian girl from Sri Lanka to make her your main character in your new TV series, because all the research in the world won't make it right, unless you actually know well a real lesbian girl from Sri Lanka (or a country with a similar culture). Because your research will end up in stereotypes, trust me. And it'll suck.

And you definitely don't write about diversity behaving and pretending to be white men. For example, HIMYF. A show that attempts to be the diverse version of HIMYM. But it's not funny. It's not half as great. Why? Because it's too Woke. It showcases POC and women trying to behave like white American men, and it doesn't work.

I could go on about this for years and years (and please do feel free to ask anything) because it's such a massive issue, truly, and as a filmmaker, my ovaries are fucking huge with rage about the whole thing. But I'll leave it at this. We as a civilization need to develop thicker skin and learn to laugh at ourselves. No kidding the new generation is being called "crystal", damn, it's so bloody fragile. We need to be OK with jokes and even insults, and take them as what they are: the real repressentation of somebody's lived experience. I'm not saying racism is OK, but I am saying that I'd much rather someone is true to themselves so I know they're racists and choose not to be mates with them, than creating a fake world where everyone's fake and dishonest and pretending to be what they're not. Fake it until you make it never works. Not even actors do it.

What we see today in film and TV with the reboots and the "correction" is precisely that: fake and dishonest. Pretending like black actors have it as easy as white actors to get cast, like black stories can be identical to white stories, like producers and big companies aren't racist and sexist and homophobic because they make rainbow T-Shirts and say Love is Love like they're being paid for it (because they are), is fooling yourself and giving money to actual assholes pretending to be angels. We're forgetting what it means to have actual principles set in stone, and we're being content with people simply "pretending" for the sake of money and fame.

And I'll tell you one last thing: consume things and accept them and love them for what they are. I'm a woman and I come from minorities, but do I laugh when Barney Stinson says a sexist joke? yes. Because I accept he's a sexist asshole and I don't pretend to change him, I laugh and roll my eyes and think "typical Barney", and so far, having seen HIMYM several times, I haven't heard him say something so hurtful and inconsiderate that I actually got offended, mostly because I understand he's not a bad guy, he's just a product of the way he was raised and that's the whole point. To put it simple: don't get angry at a cat because it won't bark. And when I want to watch something that's feminist and all about female empowerment, I watch Charmed and see guys like Barney getting their arse handed to them by ferocious women.

And when I want badass POC or LGBT stories, guess what? Nothing, because we're yet to give POC or LGBT people enough of a platform as producers, script writers and creators to create badass LGBT or POC stories, so all we have is white people dressed as LGBT/POC in white shows dressing-up as diversity shows, and that's ladies and gentlemen how Sex and the City the reboot was born.

[gigamuffin]

i would like an essay on how ghostbusters was almost tailor made to create a misogynistic part of the fanbase

[nerdie-faerie]

Got unreasonably hurt when a coworker said 'yeah you look like someone who watches sci-fi' before walking away like you right but what the fuck

[beardedmrbean]

"Dead in the water" is, sadly, not the title of Margot Robbie's upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean movie — it's the status.

The Birds of Prey and Barbie actress has been attached to a more female-focused film in the fantasy-adventure franchise since 2020, but Robbie now says the pic is not moving forward at Disney.

"We had an idea and we were developing it for a while, ages ago, to have more of a female-led — not totally female-led, but just a different kind of story — which we thought would've been really cool, but I guess they don't want to do it," Robbie tells Vanity Fair in a new cover story.

A spokesperson for Disney did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment.

Screenwriter Christina Hodson, who worked on Birds of Prey, was set to write the new Pirates movie, EW had earlier confirmed. The idea wasn't to do a formal spin-off but rather a separate origin story with new characters. This would've been completely different than the long-in-development reboot of the franchise that was first reported back in 2019.

Orlando Bloom's Will Turner, Keira Knightley's Elizabeth Swann, and Johnny Depp's (Captain!) Jack Sparrow were the central focus of the first three movies — 2003's Pirates of the Caribbean, 2006's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, and 2007's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

Depp returned with Geoffrey Rush's Hector Barbossa for 2011's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, which added Penélope Cruz's Angelica and Ian McShane's Edward Teach. In 2017, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales reunited Bloom and Knightley while introducing even more new characters.

The future of the franchise is unclear at this point. During the defamation trial between Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard, Depp testified that Disney cut ties with him after Heard published her 2018 Washington Post op-ed in which she described herself as a victim of domestic abuse, though she didn't mention Depp by name.

Depp denies Heard's allegations of abuse. A jury sided with the actor in the defamation trial, determining that Heard intentionally and maliciously defamed him with the op-ed. Heard won a counterclaim that stated Depp defamed her through his lawyer by calling her abuse accusations a "hoax" in the press, insinuating that her friends had set up Depp.

[buildoblivionthenwewilltalk]

quite depressing how hard it is to buy dvds on the british high street these days :(

[shaftking]

Watching this video essay on ghostbusters sequels both made and unmade and it got to the point where it had to inevitably talk about the 2016 flop reboot and it was like “there was all this criticism of the film which was itself criticized as being bigoted and sexist. However, when the shelf life of the hysteria expired, it seemed like people simply didn’t like the movie because they deemed it as not a very good film.” Lmaooo

[owenthetokencishet]

Inside of me there are two wolves:

One wants to see Ghostbusters series continue expanding like... Internationally, seeing directors and screenwriters from all over the world put their own spin on the formula

The other says dear GOD NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE AN INFINITE FRANCHISE Columbia already TRIED doing that with the reboot and failed SPECTACULARLY

[itsprobablybetteroffthatway]

hocus pocus 2 is… not great

[motherbookerblog]

Film Review - Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)

⭐⭐ Rating: 2 out of 5. I didn’t really dislike Ghostbusters: Afterlife. I didn’t particularly like it but I didn’t hate it. Certainly not enough to be overly worried about the next one. Did I expect Frozen Empire to be good? Not really but I didn’t think it would be a disaster. That said, I wasn’t convinced enough to pay good money to see it. So, I waited until it was available to watch online.…

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Ghostbusters (2016, Paul Feig)

28/11/2023

Ghostbusters is a 2016 film directed by Paul Feig.

The film marks the reboot of the series of the same name, with a new team of female Ghostbusters, played by Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones.

Abby Yates and Erin Gilbert are two theoretical physics scholar who together wrote a book in which they argue that paranormal phenomena, such as ghosts, really exist. Abby, Erin and Jillian witness the first physical manifestation of a ghost they have ever seen, filming it and posting the video on YouTube, which leads to Erin's immediate dismissal and her loss of all credibility as a scientist by the entire community university.

Abby, Erin and Jillian manage to capture the ghost with their proton packs and film the operation, but their footage is once again mocked by the Internet public. Patty decides to join the team, making herself useful as she knows New York city very well and provides the group with a vehicle, a repurposed Cadillac hearse borrowed from her uncle.

When Rowan plants one of the devices in a venue where a heavy metal concert is being held, the Ghostbusters are called in and capture the ghost in front of the audience.

During the credits, Patty listens to a recording of an encounter with a ghost and asks the other three Ghostbusters if they have ever heard of Zuul.

~ Abigail "Abby" Yates, played by Melissa McCarthy, is a scholar of the paranormal world, willing to do anything to prove her theories.

~ Erin Gilbert, played by Kristen Wiig, Abby's best friend, was nominated to become a professor at Columbia University, a job she lost after it was revealed she co-authored a book about ghosts with Yates.

~ Jillian Holtzmann, played by Kate McKinnon, is a nuclear engineer, rebellious and courageous.

~ Patricia "Patty" Tolan, played by Leslie Jones, is a New York subway employee.

~ Kevin Beckman, played by Chris Hemsworth, is the secretary of the Ghostbusters, a muscular and charming but extremely dumb and childish boy, who can't even answer the phone.

~ Rowan North, played by Neil Casey, the film's main antagonist, is a mad scientist who becomes a ghost and attempts to unleash an army of ghosts to destroy the city.

~ Bradley, played by Andy García, is the Mayor of New York.

The protagonists of the first two Ghostbusters films participate in the film in some cameos:

- Bill Murray, Dr. Martin Heiss, a debunker who doesn't belive in the paranormal;

- Dan Aykroyd, a taxi driver;

- Ernie Hudson, Bill Jenkins, Patty Tolan's uncle;

- Sigourney Weaver, Rebecca Gorin, Jillian Holtzmann's professor and mentor;

- Annie Potts, the receptionist at the Mercado Hotel.

Ozzy Osbourne, Al Roker, Pat Kiernan, Cheryl Wills, Rosanna Scotto and Greg Kelly also participate in the film, playing themselves.

[yunisverse]

the last post inspired a lot of discussion with friends about what animation style we thought each other would be so here we are